Rikers Fight Club: New Law a Response to Jail Violence

May 11, 2009

Following a drumbeat of negative news about the city jail for teenagers, and after the outcry over the murder of 18-year-old Christopher Robinson there, Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a bill yesterday that requires the Correction Department to disclose safety and census data on teens in jail.

Under the bill, Correction officials will have to post statistics to its website on the number of teen inmates in the system, and numbers on various types of violent incidents.